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[lordeverything]

Is English a bitter pill?

We have learned English for more than 10 years. But we still cannot communicate with English language very well. Why are we cannot speak English, cannot understand anything that what the foreigners talk to us, cannot write letters or e-mails to our relatives who live in oversea and cannot understand the articles in the English newspapers? How should we do? In my opinion, the causes which make Thai kids cannot learn English well are 3 reasons.
First, Thai kids are learn many things include something that unnecessary such as poems. They must rote poem. I don�t anti learning poems but in my opinion the poems are as same as the songs, so we should not to force kids to rote this. As a result of this, it is cause that Thai kids cannot learn English well because they are so tried, since they must learn many subjects in everyday.
Second, English is not general language that we communicate in Thailand. So we don�t usually practice English, hence we forgot.
Finally, some English teachers have not skills. So sometime they are misguide to kids such as my experience, in Pratom 2 the teacher ( I don�t want to tell her name ) spelled �calendar� mistake. She spell �carendar� ,moreover she take this word in the final exam. So I mistake to spell this word several years.
In Conclusion, I think that these are caused that why Thai kids cannot learn English well. These are made the kids hate English and believe the English is difficult for them.
Is your idea is different than mine?


Danai Limsopitpun
47210615 Electrical Engineering

[RedRose]

lordeverything, I guess those Tai kids just didn't find effective way to learn english.

The similar situation used to happen to me.

But, if an english beginner can keep listening, listening, listening....and reading, reading, reading.....I believe they will succeed in learning English.